Hacker News: kavalg

New comment by kavalg in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

kavalg — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:14:23 +0000

Since when has intelligence had a strong relationship to status and respectability? I've met intelligent people that don't get much respect or status either because they don't look good, are shy or they don't have money.

New comment by kavalg in "Productivity isn't about going faster"

kavalg — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:09:08 +0000

True, but the relationship is certainly not linear and not a Markov process. Also, the $$$ a company makes are rarely directly translated to incentives for developers. I remember a case where a company was doing an OK engineering/product job, but had problems with sales. Then a new sales driven CEO came into place and for the next 3-5 years the company had great financial results, while at the same time eroding the engineering culture (who cares if money is flowing anyway). Then that guy left and the next CEOs had to take care of the mess.

New comment by kavalg in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

kavalg — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:23:49 +0000

How come? the github page says the license is MIT.

New comment by kavalg in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

kavalg — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:12:32 +0000

I kind of agree with you at this point. When ChatGPT was rapidly gaining popularity I thought that they will eventually replace search (esp. for shopping), which would have given them a huge ad revenue. Maybe they could have even tried social networking e.g., to help you sort out the huge flow of information that today's social networks are and get to the important/rewarding/whatever posts. But now ChatGPT is kind of getting commoditized. I would even dare say that gemini feels to me a bit better now, so the search route for ChatGPT is clearly gone.

New comment by kavalg in ""Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]"

kavalg — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:52:44 +0000

Yes, I can imaging that a robot chef holding a knife improperly is already dangerous enough even if it does not move (e.g., what if you trip and fall against the pointed knife)

New comment by kavalg in ""Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]"

kavalg — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:08:18 +0000

Cool! Does anyone have a list of challenges that must be tackled before such humanoid robots become usable for tasks such as household chores, cooking etc?

New comment by kavalg in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

kavalg — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:16:16 +0000

It looks like the stance of FSF is for proliferation of the copyleft to trained LLMs

> "Therefore, we urge Anthropic and other LLM developers that train models using huge datasets downloaded from the Internet to provide these LLMs to their users in freedom"

New comment by kavalg in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

kavalg — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:20:56 +0000

In Azimov's Robot series the society that chose to live with robots gradually destructed itself by just living longer and not having so many children. The other part of humanity that avoided robots flourished (not without suffering). But that all required new planets for settlement (I am looking at you Elon).

New comment by kavalg in "TADA: Speech generation through text-acoustic synchronization"

kavalg — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:25:08 +0000

MIT license, supported languages beyond english: ar, ch, de, es, fr, it, ja, pl, pt.

https://huggingface.co/HumeAI/tada-3b-ml

https://github.com/HumeAI/tada

New comment by kavalg in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

kavalg — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:14:13 +0000

Apprenticeship. You will have to prove to the company that working at a minimal wage is still beneficial. Or we can take it even further, you will have to pay the company for getting the necessary experience. Maybe you sign a 5 year contract with a big cancellation fee. It is not unheard of. I remember some of the navy schools having something like this. You study for 5 years for free (bed and food are paid by the school) and then you have to work for at least 5 years for the navy or pay a very big fine if you refuse to do so.

New comment by kavalg in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

kavalg — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:10:03 +0000

30+ minutes is a gross underestimation IMHO. It is probably somewhere in the range 1:10, 10:100, especially if you include the cost of context switches a senior has to do. In my experience, the loss of flow, due to context switch is very prominent and sometimes painful.

New comment by kavalg in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

kavalg — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:04:33 +0000

someone still will, but quality will become really expensive

New comment by kavalg in "This time is different"

kavalg — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:38:11 +0000

Then there will be no one to buy the robots :)

New comment by kavalg in "How will OpenAI compete?"

kavalg — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:37:55 +0000

I wonder why did they release it then.

New comment by kavalg in "How will OpenAI compete?"

kavalg — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:34:35 +0000

Unless you can provide a (community) curated list of sources to search through (e.g. using MCP). Then I think local models may become really competitive.

New comment by kavalg in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

kavalg — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:19:03 +0000

You are completely right about the polyphonic expressivity of piano. What I lack is the intonation (bending) of tone.

New comment by kavalg in "Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology"

kavalg — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:42:54 +0000

This is very interesting! I can't wait to run it on some of my own compositions...

New comment by kavalg in "A DuckDB-based metabase alternative"

kavalg — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:45:01 +0000

This is so cool and also MPL licensed! Thanks!

New comment by kavalg in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

kavalg — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:22:04 +0000

Discrimination could be very hard to prove in practice.

New comment by kavalg in "A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down"

kavalg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:06:30 +0000

I do care. Please, give me a couple of such good recruiters if you know them.